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I like the ideas, but I think it would be hard to implement, most of the commanders I end up playing under do jack crap, and if you made two of them, that would mean two idiot players thinking they knew what they were doing. Of course maybe pilots are a different breed, most skilled pilots do seem to know more of what they are doing than the majority of the infantrymen.

An easier, more proximal solution at this stage in the game would be to give the commander a separate air comm channel that would only talk to pilots. I can't count how many times I have told pilots to bomb tanks or hit choppers that were decimating our infantry and the pilots just keep flying in circles. They always seem like they were looking for targets on their own, and needed a little verbal motivation.

I liked the idea of the commander ranking, I always thought that a ground commander should have a focus and high rank in ground combat; and if we were to have a air commander, he/she should be ranked high in air combat.